Chinese police say they fatally shot a man from the country’s Uighur ethnic group after he tried to attack travelers at a train station with a cement block, reviving memories of recent violence between the ethnic minority and China’s majority Han.

Railway police in the northern city of Xi’an said a police officer repeatedly warned the man before shooting him as he attacked travelers buying tickets at the city’s railway station at about 6 a.m. Wednesday.

A brief message on the force’s microblog said the man died in hospital from his injuries and that normal order had been restored at the station. [Source]